How Bengaluru City Police Came Through On Social Media During The Cauvery Crisis

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Police personnel stand guard near burnt buses after violence that followed a protest by garment factory workers in Bangalore.

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The last few days have been chaotic for residents of Bengaluru.

On Monday, the city witnessed massive protests after the Supreme Court ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery river so that it could flow into neighbouring Tamil Nadu, reigniting a long-simmering dispute in the region about who gets to use how much water.

The violence forced the police to impose curfew in parts of Bengaluru, two days later.

Naturally, residents became concerned about their safety when venturing out of their houses. But, as befits India's IT capital, the Twitter handles of Bengaluru City Police and Bengaluru Traffic Police were busy helping city residents and soothing their safety related anxieties.

After the news broke that parts of Bengaluru had been hit by violence and rioting, Aniket Kumar was stranded in Whitefield, a city suburb with a concentration of IT offices. His company asked him to return home but there was no way of telling if he could safely reach his home situated in the Indiranagar locality. So, he tweeted to the city police, asking them.